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whitepaper Founded in 1995, eBay Inc.pioneers communities built on commerce, sustained by trust, and inspired by opportunity. To power its massively-scaled resource tiers including both commercial and custom databases, eBay relies on a spectrum of Sun servers...
[06 May 2008]
News Community-based auction site eBay came next. The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer - are social networking...
[01 May 2008]
News Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user eBay hits back at boycotters Staying online, eBay had a few things to say on a proposed buyer boycott. It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular...
[28 Apr 2008]
News eBay has hit back at a proposed seller boycott over changes to the site that will mean sellers won't be able to post negative feedback. From May, eBay is banning sellers from posting negative feedback in order to avoid unjustified comments posted...
[21 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Bargainland, an online liquidator and one of eBay's largest sellers, had to quickly find a different sales channel. More importantly, the company is rapidly reaching a point at which Bargainland will be able to scale out the site at will, as...
[14 Apr 2008]
News PayPal works with owner eBay along with AOL, Google, Verisign, Yahoo! Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing with...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In 2000, eBay, the leading online marketplace and possibly the most successful Web-based enterprise in existence, faced a serious challenge. Its business was growing so fast that it threatened to tax its existing two-tier technology architecture in...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper If you've ever wondered how eBay, the largest and most popular marketplace on the Web, ensures network security across its own and its business partners' networks, here's your chance to find out. It provides a convincing testimonial from Chris...
[31 Mar 2008]
Comment The success of data encryption in preserving the confidentiality of information was demonstrated recently by the discovery of a confidential Home Office disc found hidden in a laptop sold via online auction site eBay.
[27 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Recipients are directed to counterfeit and fraudulent websites that are exact duplicates of well known and respected companies such as eBay, PayPal or large banking institutions and prompted to enter account information.
[24 Mar 2008]
News Former White House cyber security advisor Howard Schmidt, who has also worked for eBay and Microsoft, also backed the creation of a UK e-crime unit. The UK's major industry and business groups have backed silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign...
[14 Mar 2008]
News Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in cybercrime enforcement in countries including Romania, warning that not enough is being done to stop fraudsters targeting auction sites.
[10 Mar 2008]
whitepaper While efficient on-line media channels, such as Search, Affiliate, and CPA display media buys, have been a boon for eBay merchants and other newly created Internet businesses, they have not yet made a dent in the overall scale goals for most large...
[29 Feb 2008]
News The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay. Brian Spector, the general manager for content protection at Workshare, said: "With the statistics showing that nearly 500...
[29 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Gadget and widget platforms, such as Windows Live, have a natural integration with sites, such as eBay, through Web services. Gadgets are great for monitoring the status of ever-changing data; the eBay marketplace is always in flux.
[27 Feb 2008]
News Other tech companies that made the top 100 include Apple (11), Nokia (18), Vodafone (25), IBM (27), HP (32) Intel (42), eBay (43), Cisco Systems (58) and BlackBerry (61). And despite the presence of relatively new US-based companies such as Google...
[25 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Podcast The mighty takeover bid, eBay plays nice, diet tiles and Second Life's grey goo are all discussed in this week's Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tim Ferguson and Bethan Jones.
[08 Feb 2008]
Comment Just play nice eBay bans bad feedback as customers scared off by nasties I totally agree with eBay's stance on sellers negative feedback. It put me off using eBay for more than a year and I am still wary of using it.
[07 Feb 2008]
News In move to curtail retaliation by vengeful sellers in its feedback system, eBay plans to prohibit sellers from posting negative feedback about their customers. Beginning in May, sellers will not be able to leave negative or even neutral comments...
[06 Feb 2008]
News Meg Whitman, chief executive of auction giant eBay, is planning to retire, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. She has held the eBay top post since 1998. The report named John Donahoe, president of eBay's auction business unit, as the...
[23 Jan 2008]
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